Once more with feeling!: Familiarity and positivity as integral consequences of previous exposure

The Experience of Thinking: How the Fluency of Mental Processes Influences Cognition and Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 50-69

  Garcia Marques, Teresa ^a   Mackie, Diane M ^b   Claypool, Heather M ^c   Garcia Marques, Leonel ^d  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203078938     Document Type: Chapter

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